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“Growing up I always wanted a farm.” Jordanne Dervaes says. “We couldn’t get a farm, so we made a farm.” Dervaes lives on a micro-farm in the middle of Pasadena, where she and her family depend mostly on the land to live. What they have: a chicken coop, dwarf goats,...

Pascal Baudar wakes up every morning at 5 a.m. to shop for his food and beer ingredients. He doesn’t rise early to beat lines or make sure he has the first pick of hops or grain at the home-brew store. Where he goes, he needn’t a club membership or credit...

Attention aspiring foragers. You may not have to go as far as you thought to gather your food. Just look up, or check out the aroma, as these wild fruits are strikingly fragrant. If you’re not originally from Los Angeles, you may be unfamiliar with the guava fruit. Guava trees,...

Foraging becomes an unlikely salve for heartbreak in Ava Chin’s memoir Eating Wildly, published in May from Simon & Schuster. Adrift after a breakup and the illness of her beloved grandmother, the author retreats into the parks of New York, looking for a connection with her past and hoping to secure a writing...

If you haven't been checking your Facebook page, Twitter feed, Instagram account, etc., lately, you may be sadly unaware of the latest temporary food-as-art installation, the Amalur Project, which last night debuted at Echo Park's Cortez. I'm sorry. But the happy news is that, as is often the case, there's...

Forage much? Chefs do it, Pascal Baudar does it (feel free to join him). Even UCLA professor of Italian and culinary history Luigi Ballerini does it, judging by his latest book, A Feast of Weeds: A Literary Guide to Foraging and Cooking Wild Plants, with recipes by Ada De Santis...